Choosing the right wine for Thanksgiving can be “an exercise in agony,” said Eric Asimov in The New York Times. Many people are filled with “an extra dimension of dread” at the prospect of serving a wine that won’t hold up against a delicious turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Yet choosing a good wine “couldn’t be simpler.”

A rule of thumb is to select wines, both red and white, that are “light-bodied, limber, and above all refreshing.” The five members of our Times panel each selected one red wine and one white. A few brought only American wines, insisting that nothing else should be served on Thanksgiving. After much good-natured bantering and tasting, we voted these half-dozen the best.